Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 5:38 pm
Obviously the 3.11 lber is a splake
The one in the first pic is a Speckled / Brook
The one in the first pic is a Speckled / Brook
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Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 8:06 pm
A friend of a friend told me that Lac Beauchamp is stocked every year with "Red Trout". Or was that Speckled Trout. No wait, I think it is Artic Char, or maybe it was Brook Trout. Now I am really confused. Actually, I think it was a school of sunfish with a painted red stripe on them, pretending to be red trout. They are tired of being ignored by everyone. Who's up for some fishing?
Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 8:24 pm
Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 8:33 pm
When you say that fish is a ''speckled trout'' in an earlier reply to this thread it's not obvious to those who do not know the difference between the two fish...I don't want to turn this into a brookie and splake thread but for those who don't know...The characteristics between both fish are very noticeable. Here are closeups of two fish I caught this winter.Bass Addict wrote:Obviously the 3.11 lber is a splake
Splake (Forked tail and skin markings similar to a lake trout)
Speckled(Square tail, black gums and red dots with blue/purple halos are present)
Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 8:48 pm
Tip-up wrote:
Nice one Tip-up .......
Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 8:58 pm
6 more sleeps 
Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 6:36 am
...until you're going for a Quebec Red Trout? 
Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 6:57 am
5 more sleeps now
By the way wajnerb66 if i remember right lac Beauchamp have rainbows!
By the way wajnerb66 if i remember right lac Beauchamp have rainbows!
Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 7:01 am
I recall that as well.....problem is, the water hit 90 degrees and they all died.....this info came from a local source 
Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 7:12 am
this year im getting a speck so red that none of you gals are going to be confused anymore.
ones red the other isint!
one thing i wont do is count the white worms inside there bellies.......
how can that 3.11 be a splake when that lake has never been stocked????
thats what i dont get!
ones red the other isint!
one thing i wont do is count the white worms inside there bellies.......
how can that 3.11 be a splake when that lake has never been stocked????
thats what i dont get!
Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 8:37 am
getnjiggywithit wrote:5 more sleeps now
By the way wajnerb66 if i remember right lac Beauchamp have rainbows!
And so the countdown begins...See you on Tues. Len
Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 1:25 pm
Fishing 24/7, the pyloric caeca (I looked the proper spelling up) are on the outside of the stomach. You've seen them already when cleaning fish, but just haven't noticed.
I don't want to start an arguement, it's just that either people will educate themselves, or they won't. Either they'll fish in blissfull ignorance of what they are catching, or they'll learn something new. I just seems such a terrible waste of a long enduring and respectable fish tradition going down the tubes when one call brook trout Quebec Reds. Arctic char are Quebec Reds.
AND here's another bit of confirming info from page 202 of the bible of Canadian fish:
Freshwater fishes of Canada. Scott, W.B. and Crossman, E.J., 1973. Bulletin 184, Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Environment Canada, Ottawa. 966pp.
OK. I think I'm really done with this thread now. Thanks for listening.
I'm moving on to fishing.
I don't want to start an arguement, it's just that either people will educate themselves, or they won't. Either they'll fish in blissfull ignorance of what they are catching, or they'll learn something new. I just seems such a terrible waste of a long enduring and respectable fish tradition going down the tubes when one call brook trout Quebec Reds. Arctic char are Quebec Reds.
AND here's another bit of confirming info from page 202 of the bible of Canadian fish:
Freshwater fishes of Canada. Scott, W.B. and Crossman, E.J., 1973. Bulletin 184, Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Environment Canada, Ottawa. 966pp.
OK. I think I'm really done with this thread now. Thanks for listening.
I'm moving on to fishing.
Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:02 pm
The map below seems to support Quebec Reds = Arctic Char in the Gatineau area... in particular, look at the sub-title...
http://www.briancoad.com/NCR/NCRMaps/salpinus.htm
http://www.briancoad.com/NCR/NCRMaps/salpinus.htm
Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 8:36 pm
4 more sleeps now!!getnjiggywithit wrote:5 more sleeps now
By the way wajnerb66 if i remember right lac Beauchamp have rainbows!
hey jiggy i hear a 4 pounder calling your name....
see you tuesday. akira will be there aswell.
i'll have info about the lakes, ie ice conditions!
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 5:10 am
3 sleeps
So, anyone heading into La Belle Province this weekend chasing Quebec reds, lakers or specs? Weather is turning around for the better and I have no doubt that ice will be off the lakes in time by Friday. Looking forward to this weekend in the bush no matter what mother nature decides to throw at us. A little bit of rain don't hurt, sunshine would be swell but a few nice trouts would be even better!
I was cleaning up a bunch of tackle last night and as much as I could not wait for trout opener to get here, now it's like...time to get the boat chuggin or on plane. Pike and walleyes are just around the corner and the same with bass...
Good luck to all heading North this weekend.
So, anyone heading into La Belle Province this weekend chasing Quebec reds, lakers or specs? Weather is turning around for the better and I have no doubt that ice will be off the lakes in time by Friday. Looking forward to this weekend in the bush no matter what mother nature decides to throw at us. A little bit of rain don't hurt, sunshine would be swell but a few nice trouts would be even better!
I was cleaning up a bunch of tackle last night and as much as I could not wait for trout opener to get here, now it's like...time to get the boat chuggin or on plane. Pike and walleyes are just around the corner and the same with bass...
Good luck to all heading North this weekend.